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Sacramento Politicians Want Even More Money to Stifle your Second Amendment Rights
June 06, 2017
Legislative procedures are there for a reason. When lawmakers draft a bill, they should have all of the particulars - and how to pay for them - figured out before it’s passed and signed into law. And if they don’t, they certainly shouldn’t be rewarded for their laziness.
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RT: Gun Sales are Back? FBI Background Checks Up for First Time Since Trump Election
June 06, 2017
Prior to May, NICS statistics show background checks had decreased each month since the November election compared to the previous year.
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CRITICAL: New Filing in Magazine Ban Lawsuit Imminent
June 05, 2017
A little over a month ago, we filed the federal lawsuit Wiese v. Becerra to challenge California’s “Large Capacity” magazine ban scheme and Prop. 63’s total ban on even “grandfathered” magazines.
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Gun Businesses are Starting to Look for the Exit Ramp Out of California
June 05, 2017
California is known to most in the Second Amendment world as one of the most anti-2A states in the country. But for gun stores, they have to deal with the other “well-known” part of California: the hostile business climate, which in 2016 was named the worst in the nation.
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Guns.com: Gov Scott Walker Shies Away from Wisconsin Permitless Carry Legislation
June 05, 2017
As the measure drew attention at public hearings in a Senate committee last week, Walker said he was happy with the current law.
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Breitbart: Neighbor Shoots Knife-Wielding Man Trying to Drown Babies in Bathtub
June 05, 2017
On Friday an Ada, Oklahoma, man shot and killed a knife-wielding suspect who was trying to drown two babies in a bathtub in a nearby home.
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KC Star: Kansas Legislature Approves Bill Allowing Public Hospitals to Ban Guns
June 05, 2017
“I’m not asking you to abandon your long held principles about guns, I’m just not,” Rep. Kathy Wolfe Moore, a Kansas City, Kan., Democrat told lawmakers during the House debate. “I’m asking you to recognize that there are some places where guns just don’t belong.”
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Guns.com: May Gun Sales Jump 6 Percent, Resists the Slump
June 03, 2017
National gun sales have continued to resist the slump predicted to ensue after Republicans took control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, according to federal data published Thursday.
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New Gun Control Bill in Salem
June 02, 2017
SB 1065 would increase the amount of time a gun purchase can be delayed without cause -- and also place increased barriers on your ability to obtain a concealed handgun license.
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Lonestar Voice: Texas Legalizes All Knives, Swords, and Spears, Barring Veto
June 02, 2017
But the Bowie knife wasn’t the only illegal knife in Texas statute. Pretty much everything with a blade besides a common pocket knife was illegal for carry.
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Volokh: Judge in Katie Couric ‘Under the Gun’ Libel Case Calls Argument Against Background Checks ‘Sophistry’
June 02, 2017
Hawes’s response is simply that we should prevent misconduct by the threat of punishment, not by prescreening — of course, a controversial position, but hardly a sophistic one. The other response is a legitimate, and not at all sophistic, challenge to the premise of the question.
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News Tribune: Under Pressure from Gun-Rights Group, Tacoma Might Drop its Taser Ban
June 02, 2017
The Sacramento-based Firearms Policy Coalition has successfully pressured other cities into dropping their bans.
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BREAKING: 9th Circuit Rules 3-0 Against Gun Owners in DROS Fee Lawsuit
June 02, 2017
Interestingly, the Court found that the "[Armed Prohibited Persons System] program is, in essence, a temporal extension of the background check program. The APPS program therefore, can fairly be considered an 'expense[] of policing the activities in question....or an 'expense incident to . . . the maintenance of public order in the matter licensed'..."
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Guns.com: Michigan Constitutional Carry Bills Advance to House Floor
June 02, 2017
A package of bills backed by Republicans to allow law-abiding Michigan residents to carry concealed handguns without a permit passed a key House committee Tuesday.
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LA Times: Ex-L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca Sentenced to Three Years in Prison in Jail Corruption Scandal
June 01, 2017
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, once a towering, respected figure in policing, was sentenced Friday to three years in federal prison for his role in a scheme to obstruct an FBI investigation of abuses in county jails, marking an end to a corruption scandal that has roiled the Sheriff’s Department for several years.
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Sac Bee: California Assembly won’t Renew Contract with Eric Holder’s Firm
June 01, 2017
Rendon and Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles, announced the $25,000-a month contract with Holder’s firm in January.
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Anti-Gun Senator Yee Charged With Gun Trafficking
June 01, 2017
State Senator Leland Yee is the poster child for the anti-gun movement in California. And now he has taken it to a whole new level, as he was arrested by federal agents on charges of corruption, bribery and WEAPONS TRAFFICKING!
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Guns.com: Gabby Giffords, Mark Kelly Start Ohio-Based Gun Control Group
June 01, 2017
Mark Kelly debuted the Ohio Coalition for Common Sense at the Columbus Metropolitan Club on Wednesday with the avowed purpose to bring community leaders together to address gun violence in the state.
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They Want to Sneak SB 719 Through in Oregon
May 31, 2017
Since they’ve announced that “sine die” (adjournment) is imminent, the rules have changed - and they are not required to give us as much notice as they did earlier in the session before a hearing is held.
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Breitbart: NY Dem Pushes Bill Labeling Traditional Guns as ‘Child Operated Firearms’
May 31, 2017
According to the official New York State Senate website, S3444 “Proscribes persons, firms or corporations engaged in retail business of selling firearms from selling, delivering or transferring child operated firearms.”
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FPC Scores Major 2A Victory Over Westminster, MD
May 31, 2017
FPC and Firearms Policy Foundation had recently sent Westminster a letter threatening legal action if the unconstitutional ban was not repealed in full.
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Guns.com: North Dakota Supreme Court Invalidates Restraining Order Against Gun Owner
May 30, 2017
Justice Daniel J. Crothers, who authored the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision last week, agreed her behavior didn’t qualify as “intrusive or unwanted acts, words, or gestures that are intended to adversely affect the safety, security, or privacy of another person.”
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Breitbart: LAPD Chief Warns of Apocalypse if National Concealed Carry Passes
May 30, 2017
Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck warns that national reciprocity for concealed carry will be a disaster in California.
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Guns.com: Illinois Lawmakers Propose ‘National Gun Violence Awareness’ Day and Month
May 30, 2017
Companion measures were introduced last week in both chambers of Congress to promote an awareness campaign backed by gun control groups.